The Journey So Far

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There’s No Place Like Home
Seems like yesterday that we touched down here in Kelowna, and yet, here we are already preparing to blast off back to Australia. In reality we’ve been back almost 7 weeks - longer than we had anticipated but there were a few, er, shall we say, unexpected “curve...
Brisbane, Home, & A New Baby !
Farewelling my brother in Dicky Beach it was an easy 1 hour drive to Brisbane. It’s a place we have always enjoyed visiting and we had ample tasks to occupy our time while we waited a week for our flight back to Canada to spend a month with our kids and friends there....
Fantastic Fraser Island !
Popular Hervey Bay is literally just a hop, skip and jump from Woodgate - it’s always been a popular draw, especially for sun-seeking retirees, and remains as busy as ever. This time, for us anyway, it represented the perfect jumping off point for a...
Rockhampton, Beyond, And More Kind Strangers
Rested up after our stay at delightful Carmila beach, the Bruce highway took us further south and on to wonderful Woodgate beach, just south of Bundaberg.. There were of course a few very worthy pit stops between the two which made for a busy and, in the end, a very...
South From Townsville
With only a few weeks to travel before a planned (northern ) summer break back in Canada, the weather app has taken over as our “compass” of sorts. Simply put, our aim was to maximize the hot weather at a time when both the season and direction we were headed would be...
South From Cooktown
Comfortably ensconced in Cooktown, the recent drama on the Cape York track behind us, it was time for a reset of sorts. It was now July, we had a month before flying back to Canada in August and the beautiful Queensland coast lay ahead of us. Our unforced early exit...